Creating an Ensemble
What qualities are required to create an effective ensemble?
Skills
Approaches
Knowledge and Experience
Interests
- A clear and concise idea of what you want to communicate to the audience
- Equal contribution of ideas as well as building off ones that are already there
- Agreement on what ideas are put forth and how they will contribute to communicating theme and the message of the performance
- Participation even if the style or idea isn't your cup of tea
Skills
- Physical Movement
- Working without a script
- Improvisation
- Good at following
Approaches
- Being directed by others
- Improvising
- Working with multiple stimuli
- Music to help with creating ideas
Knowledge and Experience
- 12 years of dance experiance
- Approaches to physical movement
Interests
- Dance
- Acting
- Using music as a stimulus
- Melodrama
- Complicite
Devising Agreements
- We agree that our intention is to help each other to do the best work possible.
- We agree to strive to be Boris Choy in every way.
- We agree that we cannot do it alone. We agree that we need each other.
- We agree that after the culmination of the final presentation, 12 year-old-like squealing will not ensue.
- We agree to adhere to a schedule.
- We agree not to disregard ideas without the opportunity of exploration.
- We agree to minimise the throwing of shade in order to create an on point performance piece.
- We agree that there are no semi-characters and to keep roles of equal responsibility.
- When it comes to production elements, we agree that everyone has a say.
- When there is a dispute that cannot be solved otherwise, both avenues will be explored in the hopes of eventually coming to a consensus.
- By the end of the Collaborative Project, Kelsey Margaret Wallace will have taken her coffee machine home.
- We agree to strive to be Boris Choy in every way.
- We agree that we cannot do it alone. We agree that we need each other.
- We agree that after the culmination of the final presentation, 12 year-old-like squealing will not ensue.
- We agree to adhere to a schedule.
- We agree not to disregard ideas without the opportunity of exploration.
- We agree to minimise the throwing of shade in order to create an on point performance piece.
- We agree that there are no semi-characters and to keep roles of equal responsibility.
- When it comes to production elements, we agree that everyone has a say.
- When there is a dispute that cannot be solved otherwise, both avenues will be explored in the hopes of eventually coming to a consensus.
- By the end of the Collaborative Project, Kelsey Margaret Wallace will have taken her coffee machine home.